Chapter on Ruling of Treatment for the Fasting Person, Kohl, Cupping, the Tooth-Stick (Siwak), Entering the Bathhouse, and Other than That

Muhammad ibn Yaqub, from a number of our companions, from Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn Khalid, from Dawud ibn Ishaq al-Hadhdha, from Muhammad ibn al-Fayd, who said: I (narrator) heard Abu Abdillah عليه السلام, peace be upon him, forbidding narcissus (al-narjis). So I (narrator) asked: “May I be made your ransom, why is that?” Imam عليه السلام said: “Because it is the sweet basil of the non-Arabs.”